If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

The way out is through the door you came in.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.